Chapter Eighteen

Flashback

"No, Thor!" little Katerina walked behind a slightly older Thor and Loki. "Don't leave me, I want to play too!"

"We're playing warriors, Katerina." Thor informed her waving in the air a wooden sword. "Girls, can't play warriors. Go play with Fulla!"

"Fulla, is asleep." Katerina said as she took the sword from Thor and poked Thor in the chest. "Girls, can be warriors too."

"Katerina!" Thor snapped. "Mother says you're not supposed to do that!"

"I wouldn't have too," she folded her arms across her chest stubbornly. "If only you would let me play."

"Let's tumble down the hills," Loki looked over his shoulder. "Mother, isn't watching."

Katerina and Thor exchanged smiles as they followed Loki. Thor tumbled down the grass hill with the grace of a small bear, Loki followed next probably the most graceful out of the three. Katerina tucked the edge of her dress under her knees and rolled down the hill, bumping into Thor and Loki like a bowling ball. They exploded into an air of laughs. "Let's do it again."

End of Flashback

"Thor," Odin was sitting on his throne, his son and his wife stared back at him unexpectedly. "You finally returned from Vanaheim? I see that your sister is once again a Goddess."

"Yes, father." He responded.

Odin didn't say anything for a moment until he spoke again. "Well, where are they? I need to speak with Loki and Katerina."

"They insisted on staying back on earth."

Odin frowned, as his jaw tightened. "Are you telling me you let them?"

"They promised me that they would come back-"

"Their promises mean nothing!" Odin roared before he rested his head again the back of the chair. "I know you want to believe Katerina and Loki because they are your siblings, but I know them Thor and they must pay for their crimes. Tell Heimdall to open the Bifrost and to bring them back home.

A cup shattered in the Salvatore's kitchen.

Elena bit her lip, it was the only other thing that she could do besides bursting into tears. "I'm sorry." She had said that phrase at least a dozen times today. Ever since two weeks ago when Katherine told her to expect practically hell Elena had been a nervous, paranoid wreck.

She had refused to leave the house and always wanted at least another vampire with her.

Caroline sighed as she grabbed the broom. "It's all right, Elena but you need to stop stressing."

"How am I supposed to react, Care?" she felt herself snapping. "Katherine is pissed and she has the upper hand, she won't be satisfied until I'm dead, Caroline."

"Maybe she moved on," Caroline bit her pinky nail. "Maybe she forgot all about you and instead is sipping wine and ruining a maid's life or whatever."

Elena gave a cold laugh. "You obviously don't know, Katherine."

Bonnie peeked from the corner. "Lie is here, she's ready to put the barriers around the Salvatore's house."

Caroline hugged her. "Matt and Bonnie will be with you. I'll talk to you later."

"Why do we have to stay outside our own house again?" Damon asked annoyed to Stefan. He and Stefan were standing in the center of town near the Grill. "Protecting her would be much easier if we were actually in the house, brother."

"I know, but the point is that nobody should be able to get in." Stefan folded his arms across his chest. "If Katherine does try to get in, then we have an easier advantage to attack her from outside. Trust me, we are better protecting her from outside, besides she's with Bonnie and Matt."

"Oh, yes a former witch and a bus boy that should keep Elena safe," Damon said sarcastically and frowned. "But what is bus boy doing here?"

Stefan turned around and saw Matt approach them. "Hey, Matt you're supposed to be with Elena and Bonnie."

"I thought I'd stick around for a bit." Matt replied.

Damon grabbed him by his chin. "Listen, Donovan-"his words were cut off when he felt a sharp pain in his stomach. He looked down, a dagger. Damon staggered to the floor.

"Damon," Stefan attempted to help his brother, but felt the same sharp pain. "You're not, Matt."

Matt's face and body disappeared to be replaced by Loki's. "No, I am not."

"I'm going to my room, Bonnie." Elena said as she got up from the couch and refolded the blanket that she had been snuggling against.

"Damon's room." Bonnie corrected with a smile.

"Damon's room." She smiled as she went up the stairs. She turned on the light and gasped, sitting on top of Damon's bed was Katherine, stroking a stake. "Katherine."

Katherine looked up and gave her a cold smile. "Hello, Elena." She looked at the yearbook in front of her. "Honor student, cheerleader, Most Popular wow was that before or after you tried to murder you best friends and never bothered to apologize? That would make Mommy and Daddy proud."

"Bonnie!" Elena attempted to escape, but Katherine shut the door behind her without moving.

"I don't think your former witch friend is going to be much help." She gave her a sickly sweet smile. "Besides, I thought we could have a little talk."

Elena eyed the stake. "You're here to kill me."

"You didn't think I forget about you and I said sit," a chair slid under Elena's legs forcing her to sit. "You're my fourth doppelganger, Elena and I can sincerely say you're the one that has caused me the most trouble, except what I can't understand is how everyone can prefer you a cheap carbon copy over me. They say your kind and compassionate, but I'm starting to realize that you only act that way towards your friends. I sure didn't see any compassion where you planned to murder the Originals or when your boyfriend feed me to Silas. Yet, everyone treats Elena Gilbert like you're the freaking sun that everyone should revolve around."

"That's because I don't kill and manipulate people to get what I want." She hissed. "You killed Caroline, you killed my brother, you killed my parents and you just laugh like it was nothing."

"Oh, please Caroline loves being a vampire. And the witch brought Jeremy back in exchanged for her own life to make you happy." Katherine sneered. "And yes, I kill to get what I want and I manipulate, but you too. We're more alike than you want to believe."

"I am nothing like you!"

"Oh, really." Katherine counted off her fingers. "Bonnie, Sheila, and Abby died because of you to either protect you or to make you happy, you play with both Stefan and Damon's affections definitely ruined whatever brother bond they have left. You play a part in Kol and Finn's deaths killing thousands of vampires, yet Klaus doesn't even blink and he lets you go. Everyone around you has lost someone because of you, yet they're still stupidly loyal. And let's not forget that your force fed me the cure despite the fact that I didn't want it and lots of people died to get it for you. Also, even though you gave me your crappy I want you to find your humanity speech you let Damon feed me to Silas of all, people. No, you're right maybe you're worse than me."

"I've suffered, Katherine," Elena snarled at her as she stood up. "I lost both my parents and adoptive parents because of you, you led Klaus here and he killed my Aunt Jenna, I watched people I care about die over and over again."

"And once again all of those people died because of you. Something tells me the world would be a much better place if you hadn't existed. I've lived for over 2,000 years I watched my best friend be murdered, I got cursed because I wanted to help her, I got stood up at the altar, I've gone to war and watched people die, I've been used as a pawn by my own father to get something that he wants, I had to endure 500 years of loneliness just to survive. So excuse me Elena that I don't care about your pathetic life." Katherine slapped her across the face. "You little girl don't know anything about suffering!"

"Then do it," Elena raised her chin. "It will only prove what I already know that you're a horrible person incapable of redemption that you're not capable of love or forgiveness. So do it, Katherine kill me, it won't solve anything Katherine, your life will still be horrible and no one will love you."

Katherine stabbed her with the stake and Elena started turning gray. "Poor, stupid Elena did you honestly think I was going to feel sorry for you? Rest in hell."

Elena's dead body fell on the floor.

Katherine smiled gleefully as she closed her eyes. She had done it. She had killed Elena Gilbert and all her doppelgangers. "Katherine Pierce wins again." She clicked her tongue.

There was a roaring of thunder and a flash of light, Katherine felt herself being pulled out of the room. The Bifrost. Heimdall. Her father. Katherine grabbed tightly to the banister from the bed, but it was no use they kept pulling her forward. "No, I can't go home!" she shouted. "Not yet! No!"

"These things are useful. What did you say they were called again, oh yes cell phones?" Loki fiddled with Damon's phone and stared at the screen, it was a picture of Damon and Elena. "Elena shares a remarkable physical appearance to my sister, no wonder she doesn't like her."

"Well, your sister is a self-obsesses bitch and she wonders why no one likes her," Damon grunted as he tried to remove the dagger, but he couldn't. "What the hell is this?"

Loki looked up. "It's a dagger. Don't worry you will be able to remove them yourselves in half an hour or so. That should give Katerina plenty of time."

"Plenty of time for what?" Stefan wheezed. Loki gave a shrug of his shoulders. "No, Katherine won't be able to get inside the house, there are all kinds of shields around it."

Loki gave an irritated sigh. "I told you this once and I will tell you again, Asgardian magic is more powerful than regular magic. So I hope you two got to say your goodbyes."

Damon grunted. "If you touch Elena, I swear-"

"That you will do what?" Loki smirked. "You can't do anything and besides I'm not doing the actual killing. If it were up to me I would drive her mentally insane, but my sister has always preferred brute strength like Thor."

"You two really are pathetic you know that." Stefan said. "Don't you two have anything better to do that ruin innocent people's lives?"

"I hardly think you two are saints."

"No, we're not, but Elena is a good person, far better than Katherine. She's strong and brave and compassionate. All of her doppelgangers were, well you know what they say the first one is the test subject." Damon said. "And you two are so desperate for Daddy's affection that you will do anything to get noticed."

Loki grabbed Damon by the collar of his shirt. "Memoriam disaste."

Damon screamed in pain.

"What are you doing to him?"

"I told you, my sister prefers brute strength, and I prefer messing with the mind." Loki said. "Your brother, Damon is reliving every horrible thing that has happened to him."

The sky suddenly darkened and the wind started blowing at rapid speed. Loki looked up and frowned. He recognize the Bifrost. "No, no-"

There was a flash of bright light and Loki was gone. Stefan helped his brother up. "What happened?"

"Who cares?" Damon rubbed his temples. "The freak is gone, now let's go find Elena."

-End of Chapter Eighteen-